A resident historian has discovered the house where a Nobel Peace Prize winner lived in West Kilbride.
Stephen Brown, who wrote a recent book revealing fresh details about the Portencross Armada sinking, has uncovered more details about eminent doctor and biologist John Boyd Orr's upbringing in West Kilbride.
The house is above the "Juniper and Jane” textile gifts and homeware shop, and Boyd Orr's father’s painters shop was below and next door – now Smith’s Barbers.
The Post Office is to issue a first class stamp on March 15 with portrait of John Boyd Orr who was born in Kilmaurs in 1880, but his strong West Kilbride connections have been little known about, until now.
Stephen said: "Boyd Orr won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949 for advocating a world government that would end poverty and malnutrition.
"Contrary to the Kilmarnock wikipedia entry, he did not go to school in that town except for four months during which time he played truant. The rest of his education up until university was at West Kilbride Public School under the benign and encouraging headmaster John G. Lyon.
"All of that is known except that the location of his house had been lost in the mist of time. With the assistance of the Library (1901 Census confirming it to be Main Street) and locals through the "Being West Kilbride" Facebook Group (the late Thomas Brown, father of Crawford Brown) we are now able to confirm that John Boyd Orr's father Robert purchased this entire property and the family lived in it throughout the school years and until Robert's death.
"The barber shop to the left was where Robert ran the family painting and decorating shop. The shop on the right was actually the house main entrance. I have a postcard showing the building as it was then, with the R.C. Orr sign up outside c. 1901."
Boyd Orr rose to prominence as one of Britain's leading experts on nutrition. He stated that many Britons were malnourished because their incomes were too low, and he participated in campaigning the League of Nations to achieve an international policy on nutrition.
During the Second World War, he brought forward the idea of a 'world food plan' to President Franklin D Roosevelt of the USA. 
In 1945, he was elected Director-General of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation), and argued that food and prosperity for all people on earth led to peace.
Boyd Orr also called for a world government ruling according to rules of international law, and was elevated to the peerage for his national and international commitment. He served as President of the National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organisations, and died in 1971.